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‘Le Petit Journal was a daily Parisian newspaper published from 1863 to 1944. In the 1890s, at the height of its popularity, the newspaper had a circulation of a million copies, and by 1884 it also included a weekly illustrated supplement.’
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Thank you to Chris Mullen
Whoa, what lurid covers! A true ancestor of True Crime!